OEM documentation contains the technical knowledge your workforce needs — but it's written for engineers, not operators. The Progress Collective converts equipment manuals into structured, site-specific work instruction drafts, so your reviewers start from the source content rather than a blank page.
OEM manuals are written for regulatory liability and product coverage — not for the worker standing in front of a piece of equipment on a specific site. They contain everything, in technical language, formatted for a filing cabinet.
Converting OEM documentation into site-specific, frontline-ready work instructions has traditionally required SME workshops, manual transcription and months of effort — often at a cost of thousands of dollars per document set. The gap between what the manual says and what your worker needs to do is where errors, incidents and rework occur.
The Progress Collective extracts the relevant task sequences from your OEM source material and generates structured work instructions your frontline teams can actually use — at the point of task performance, specific to your equipment and site context.
Convert operational sequences and startup/shutdown procedures into step-by-step task instructions specific to your site and workforce.
Extract maintenance task sequences and generate structured work instructions with safety controls, PPE requirements and required tools.
Convert technical commissioning documentation into executable task instructions for field crews performing installation or first-run activities.
Generate structured inspection work instructions from OEM testing, calibration and condition monitoring documentation.
Convert lockout/tagout and isolation procedures from OEM source into controlled, site-specific work instructions aligned to your safety management system.
Transform technical calibration guides and set-point specifications into step-by-step instructions your technicians can follow directly on the job.
The platform is designed to extract from your source documentation rather than invent or generalise, preserving quantities, sequences, component names and warnings from the original OEM material for your reviewers to confirm.
Reduce the transcription and formatting work behind OEM-to-WI conversion. Your team generates and maintains the documentation directly, with review effort focused where it matters.
Reduce the time between equipment delivery, upgrade or change and workforce readiness. Work instruction drafts can be produced as soon as the OEM documentation is available.
Apply the same conversion process across all sites and equipment types — producing a consistent document structure regardless of who generates it or when.
We've been impressed with the quality and level of detail in the technical documentation generated by ProgressOS. The platform has demonstrated promising capabilities in developing work instructions, failure mode and effects analyses (FMEA), and maintenance planning outputs from existing OEM information.
There is clear potential to reduce the engineering effort involved in developing and maintaining these deliverables, while supporting greater consistency and standardisation across asset management activities.
It is designed not to. The platform extracts and restructures content from your source material rather than inventing, generalising or adding procedures that are not in the original documentation, and aims to preserve quantities, sequences, component names and warnings. Review against the source remains part of the process.
You can paste text directly from your documentation or upload document content. The platform works from the text content of your OEM materials — including manuals, technical guides and maintenance procedures.
Yes. A single OEM manual often contains documentation for many tasks. You can generate individual work instructions for each relevant task, drawing from the appropriate sections of the source document.
They are structured to suit controlled document systems such as those used under ISO 9001 and ISO 45001. After review and approval by a competent person in your organisation, they can be registered under your document control.